Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"The church was named St. Mary of Lourdes. A Sacrament of Confirmation was held to a class of 30 school children at the same time."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"History of the Town of Peru Maine, Mary Searles Vaughn Remembering Ridlonville, Beverly Melanson Metallak, Arthur Woodrow 2011 Mexico Town Report…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"Elizabeth’s Home, which in 1887 became St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Orphan Asylum, and in 1968 St. Elizabeth’s Child Development Center."

Colby College Special Collections

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"And it all seems to me like a dream or a fairy tale, when I think of myself as a small boy moving along among so many busy people, all actively…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"While working in Bangor, Gould met 19-year old Mary Frances Donovan at a series of dances. He began courting her and they were soon married."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"We know very little of Mary, but what we do know is that she was a whiz with a needle. One of Mary’s samplers survives in the Farmington Historical…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"A History of the Town of Peru, Maine, by Mary S. Vaughn, 1971. Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns, by Ava Harriett Chadbourne, 1957."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… as the Carrabassett River) by canoe late in the fall of 1783. He headed an adventurous family that for some reason chose not to settle in…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… years, Acadia, the land between the Penobscot and St. Croix rivers, was inhospitable to settlement due to disputes and battles between Great…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"In Mary Peters, Silas Crockett, Windswept, and The Edge of Darkness, she wrote that there was something immeasurably sad in the sight of a grandson…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"They made it to the Village of St. Mary, where they rested up and attacked Quebec December 31, 1775."